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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lycortas (search)
more an object of dislike and suspicion to the Romans. He adhered, however, firmly to the moderate policy which he had adopted from the first; and, when the war between Rome and Perseus broke out, he recommended the Achaeans to preserve a strict neutrality. (Pol. 26.1, &c., 28.3, 6.) In B. C. 168, we find him proposing, in opposition again to Callicrates and Hyperbatus, to send aid to the two Ptolemies (Philometor and Physcon), who had asked for a force, with Lycortas for general, against Antiochus Epiphanes; but his motion was unsuccessful. From this period we hear no more of him. Had he been alive in B. C. 167, he would doubtless have been among the Achaeans who were apprehended and sent to Rome after the conquest of Macedonia: but his son Polybius makes no mention of him, nor even alludes to him, as one of the prisoners in question. We may, therefore, perhaps infer that he was by that time dead. (Pol. 29.8-10; see above, vol. i. p. 569b; Clint. F. H. vol. iii. pp. 318, 386.) [E.E]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lycus (search)
Lycus 2. A commander of the Rhodians, who, when the Caunians had revolted from Rhodes, in B. C. 167, reduced them again to submission. (Plb. 30.5; Liv. 45.25.) [E.E]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Asamwnai/oi), from Asamonaeus, or Chasmon, the great-grandfather of Mattathias, the father of Judas Maccabaeus, or, in a shorter form, Asmonaei or Hasmoonaei. This family, which eventually obtained the kingly dignity, first occurs in history in B. C. 167, when Mattathias raised the standard of revolt against the Syrian kings. According to Josephus (J. AJ 14.16) the Asmonaean dynasty lasted for 126 years; and as he places its termination in B. C. 37, the year in which Antigonus, king of Judaea, sed to desert the religion of his forefathers, but with his own hand struck dead the first renegade who attempted to offer sacrifice on the heathen altar. He then put to death the king's officer, and retired to the mountains with his five sons (B. C. 167). Their numbers daily increased; and as opportunities occurred, they issued from their mountain fastnesses, cut off detachments of the Syrian army, destroyed heathen altars, and restored in many places the synagogues and the open worship of the
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Mani'lius (search)
Mani'lius 2. P. Manilius, one of the legates sent into Illyricum in B. C. 167, to settle the affairs of that country after the conquest of Perseus (Liv. 45.17).
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Neon (search)
Neon 5. A Theban, probably grandson of the preceding, took a prominent part in the politics of Boeotia during the disputes between the Romans and Perseus. He was one of the principal authors of the alliance concluded by the Boeotians with the Macedonian king, on which account he was driven into exile, when the cities of Boeotia submitted to the Roman deputies Marcius and Atilius, B. C. 172. Hereupon he took refuge with Perseus, to whose fortunes he seems to have henceforward closely attached himself, as he was one of the three companions of the king's flight after the decisive battle of Pydna, B. C. 168. He eventually fell into the hands of the Romans, by whom he was executed the following year, B. C. 167. (Plb. 27.1, 2; Liv. 44.43, 45.31; Plut. Aemil. 23). [E.H.B]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
inius Nerva, a son of C. Licinius Nerva, of whom nothing is known. Nerva the son was one of the legati who, in B. C. 168, brought the news to Rome of the defeat of the Illyrian army, and the capture of Gentius, and the conquest of Illyricum. In B. C. 167, he was one of the six praetors, with the province of Hispania Ulterior. Drumann concludes that he did not go to his province, because at the close of B. C. 167 he was one of the commissioners appointed to carry back the Thracian hostages, whicng is known. Nerva the son was one of the legati who, in B. C. 168, brought the news to Rome of the defeat of the Illyrian army, and the capture of Gentius, and the conquest of Illyricum. In B. C. 167, he was one of the six praetors, with the province of Hispania Ulterior. Drumann concludes that he did not go to his province, because at the close of B. C. 167 he was one of the commissioners appointed to carry back the Thracian hostages, which reason is not quite conclusive. (Liv. 45.3, 16, 42.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nicome'des or Nicome'des Epiphanes (search)
Nicome'des or Nicome'des Epiphanes II., surnamed EPIPHANES, king of Bithynia, was son of Prusias II., and fourth in descent from the preceding. He is first mentioned as accompanying his father to Rome in B. C. 167, where they were favourably received by the senate (Liv. 45.44) At this time he must have been a mere child; but, as he grew up, the popularity of the young prince incurred the jealousy of Prusias, who, wishing to remove him out of the sight of the Bithynians, sent him to Rome as a kind of hostage. Here we find him in B. C. 155, supporting the ambassadors of Prusias, who were sent to defend that monarch against the complaints of Attalus II., king of Bithynia. (Plb. 32.26.) Nicomedes remained at Rome till B. C. . 49, and had, during his residence there, risen to a high place in the favour of the senate; but this only served to increase the suspicions and enmity of Prusias, who at length despatched Menas to Rome with an embassy to the senate, but with secret instructions to e
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Numi'sius (search)
Numi'sius 3. T. Numisius, of Tarquinii, was one of the ten commissioners sent into Macedonia in B. C. 167, to regulate its affairs after its conquest by Aemilius Paullus (Liv. 45.17). About the same time, or a little earlier, he was at the head of the embassy sent by the Roman senate to endeavour to mediate between Antiochus Epiphanes and the two Ptolemies (Philometorand Physcon). (Plb. 29.10.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Paetus, Ae'lius 7. Q. Aelius Paetus, P. F. Q. N. (Fasti Capit.), son apparently of No. 5, and grandson of No. 4. He was elected augur B. C. 174, in place of his father P. Aelius Paetus (Liv. 41.21), and was consul B. C. 167, with M. Junius Pennus. He obtained Gallia as his province, and his colleague Pisae, but the two consuls performed nothing of importance, and returned to Rome after laying waste the territory of the Ligurians. (Liv. 45.16, 44; Cic. Brut. 28.) This is the Aelius of whom it is related by Valerius Maximus (4.3.7) and Pliny (Plin. Nat. 33.11, s. 50), that the Aetolians sent him in his consulship magnificent presents of silver plate, since they had in a former embassy found him eating out of earthenware, and that he refused their gift. Valerits calls him Q. Aelius fubero Catus, and Pliny Catus Aelius; they both seem to have confounded him with other persons of the same name, and Pliny commits the further error of calling him the son in-law of L. Aemilius Paullus, the c
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Aemi'lius Macedonicus (search)
ed account of this campaign is given under PERSEUS. Paulus remained in Macedonia during the greater part of the following year as proconsul, and in the course of B. C. 167 he made a journey through Greece, in which he redressed many grievances of which the states complained, and made them various presents from the royal treasury. Oerseus. He then straightway proceeded to Oricum, where he embarked his troops, and crossed over to Italy. Aemilius Paulus arrived in Italy towards the close of B. C. 167. The booty which he brought with him from Macedonia, and which he paid into the Roman treasury, was of enormous value; but the soldiers were indignant that they in the plunder; and it was therefore not without considerable opposition that he obtained his triumph. This triumph, which was celebrated at the end of November, B. C. 167, was the most splendid that Rome had yet seen; it lasted three days, and is described at length by Plutarch. Before the triumphal car of Aemilius walked the capt
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